John Dykstra’s motion control camera work in 1971.

Before Star Wars John Dykstra worked for the Institute for Regional and Urban Development working with a very early version of the motion control camera, a forerunner to the Dykstraflex. Note, the camera in this video is not the Dyktraflex. Motion control simulator cameras had been in use during the 60’s for NASA’s Mercuri, Gemini & Apollo programs. If not for these science engineers there “may not“ have been cameras that would transform the way audiences experience the unimaginable. The Dykstraflex is a